#Elderly

The toll on healthcare worker's mental health may be one of the least told stories of covid-19.A thread.1/11 We hear a lot about the death tolls, but what is really
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An important read on a "paradox" of calculating the R. The overall R is useful to determine whether we have an epidemic, but the failure to recognise that it's actually
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Desperate long-term care homes struggle to find staff as #COVID19 sickens residents and sidelines workers, by @MoiraWelsh https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2020/04/09/desperate-long-term-care-homes-struggle-to-find-staff-as-covid-19-sickens-resident-a
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Do not attempt resuscitation (DNAR/DNR), a short thread.There seems to be a lot of confusion about resuscitation and ‘DNR’ orders.I’ll try to clear up some confusion. What qualifies me to
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They call us “dole bludgers”, but we want so much more than just social security payments. We want a wage that can support our families in and out of work.
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1/...Can’t wait for public inquiry around #Covid19, the blame game is already well under way and it’ll be delicious. 2/..Public Health England was worse than useless & failed to provide
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Quick thread about “____ lives matter.”When we collect money for UNICEF, we aren’t saying we should only care for children. When we participate in a breast cancer walkathon, we aren’t
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Ok, R, what is it and why it's important, thread. For the uninitiated, R0 is the basic reproduction number for a disease. This is basically how many people one infected
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Hey, so, it’s really not hard — and in fact, it’s necessary — to welcome and be kind to your neighbors so that the police aren’t the first people you
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It’s painful to say, but as an ER doc who talked to @Mike_Pence about healthcare, I believe he's uniquely unqualified to lead the #Coronavirus response & must step down from that role. Based
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This is a sad thread but I really hope it winds up inspiring others to give an elderly dog stuck in a shelter somewhere a look. This is a thread
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1. The way covid-skeptics will try to spin this story is to say, "If the president can get it, then anyone can. So there's no point to locking down or
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Today I've been thinking of 2020 less as the year of unexpected shocks & catastrophes more as the year predictions came true. For decades concerned people have studied the likelihood
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When the penny finally drops that this policy means we don't have enough care workers, fruit pickers, waiters etcJobs that are semi skilled but involve hard sometimes physical work. Brits
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Democrats' radically nuclear response to the SCOTUS vacancy is a real threat to Joe Biden's candidacy. Up until now, Biden has been able to run as the "take a breath"
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TW/CW/CN - COVID19If I were to contract the virus, I'd probably be someone they'd decide not to give treatment to. And I know lots of people who would be even
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